Or of course a couple of Canadian variants: “dumb as a bag of hammers”
and “smart like a bean” (from the Saskatchewan Ukrainian expression
“strong like an ox, smart like a bean.”)
 
Chris,
(who is sometimes not the sharpest tool in the shed and sometimes one
sandwich short of a picnic.)
 
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Harrison Owen
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 3:55 AM
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Subject: Re: dufuses
 
At 05:45 PM 7/4/2003 +0200, Susanne Hildebrand wrote:



And still I´m chewing on things like power, economic constraints, subtle
domination structures.
no questions yet. just - what is a dufus? ein Doofie vielleicht?

Alternatives might be -- "not the brightest candle on the cake," or
"playing with half a deck of cards." 

Harrison



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